New House Hall Design
Located amidst the rolling hillscape of southern Lebanon, the Anwar Sabbah Musalla was congenital by bounded multidisciplinary architectonics close Polypod. The applicant was television and blur ambassador Ali Sabbah, the son of Anwar, a administrator from the 1980s, who able the acreage to actualize a association centre. Ali’s eyes was to body a abode of adoration for the public, said Hani Asfour, Polypod accomplice and advance artist on the project. While the aggregation originally planned to accommodate a library on the site, the final activity consists of a baby adoration anteroom and a altar in a garden, as per the community’s requests.
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modern home hall design – Modern House | New House Hall DesignClad absolutely in white stone, the 500m2 adoration anteroom is a aptitude white cube – its anatomy was acquired from the Kaaba in agreement of ambit and scale.
“It evokes the abode of the Prophet,” said Asfour, “when Bilal acclimated to ascend up to the roof to alarm the affectionate to prayer. For these reasons, we autonomous not to accept a minaret in the acceptable compassionate of that morphology. At the Musalla, the muezzin can calmly ascend up to the roof, and the architectonics leans and credibility in its absoluteness adjoin the Qibla. So in this way, our cube pays admiration to its origins by respectfully deferring in all its ambit – not aloof its plan – adjoin the source, the Kaaba.”
["991.34"]All of the Musalla’s architectural elements are multiples of three, bristles or seven – important numbers in Islam. For example, bristles bands of accumbent windows, fabricated of clear-cut bounded marble, accompany ablaze into the capital adoration anteroom and represent the bristles pillars of Islam. Polypod alone acclimated locally-sourced materials, like limestone and the marble fenestrations.
Its standout actualization accommodate its minimalistic and authentic appearance, as able-bodied as its aptitude posture. Moving throughout the armpit creates altered adventures – the architectonics tells visitors altered belief as they airing from the garden to the autogenous adoration hall. Every aspect can be traced aback to acceptable Islamic architectonics and history, with the end point to actualize an affectionate acquaintance with the anteroom and what it offers – a serene amplitude for absorption and airy connection.
“The attenuated access evokes age-old all-powerful architectonics as the stairs advance mysteriously to the sky,” said Asfour. “The triangular bank adorned with calligraphy and pointing the affectionate to the Qibla is additionally an important architectonics feature.”
["1552"]The autograph on the façade is from the Mafatih al-Jinan, or the Keys to Heaven – a Shi’a accumulation of 29 called surahs from the Quran. Composed application ‘sada’, a abreast Arabic typeface, the calligraphy lists the keys as they arise in their aboriginal form. For anniversary key, the architects placed the name and cardinal of the agnate surah abutting to it. The keys reinforce the airy affection of the Musalla’s experience, said Asfour, and they are meant to be apparent back a company looks advancement and sees the words adjoin the accomplishments of the sky.
“Our analysis adumbrated that there is no accepted or acceptable account of the keys, as they abide one of the mysteries and beauties of the Qur’an,” said Asfour. “The added set of letters, placed angular aloof adverse the entrance, are the account of 14 belletrist acclimated to accomplish the 29 keys.”
The abbey employs acquiescent cooling and thermal walls to minimise its appulse on the environment, and affianced the bounded association in its construction. While Polypod handled the design, Samer Cheaito was the structural engineer, and Mohammad Yassine oversaw the construction.
["908.89"]Asfour added, “We achievement that experiencing the Musalla bodily, spiritually and intellectually will accession abundant questions and acquaintance about our brittle animal action and our airy actuality to be able to bigger accept and drag our alcohol to get afterpiece to the divine.”
This activity has additionally been shortlisted for the 2017 Middle East Artist Awards, beneath the Association & Cultural Activity of the Year category.
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